• Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      Lots of people don’t have the storage space to keep every piece of media that they download. Once it’s been watched or listened to, it’s deleted.

      Depending on the torrent, it’s faster to consume it than to seed it.

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      8 months ago

      I use the *arrs to make a well named hard link to the file in my media library right after the download completes. Then they can be removed from the torrent client after appropriate seeding time/ratio.

    • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz
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      8 months ago

      No point in keeping the torrent if I no longer have the file. Unless it’s something I know I will re-watch/use multiple times, I delete the file after I’ve used it.